Hi! I havent updated in a while but thats because I'm working on 2 other stories. One called Manage the Darkness which yu can find on my profile and another called I found You which I have not yet uploaded but I believe you will be quite surprised with this chapter. It's a little bit out of the blue but I have had it planned for ages so enjoy.

Chapter 10

HAYMITCH POV-

The results last night, gave me some hope that I might be able to get atleast one of them out alive. I dont want either of them to die but the gamemakers would never let 2 victors come out of the arena. I'd be surprised if they let either of them come out. After what Gale did, they probably have his death warrant signed and sent away. Prim, on the other hand, the gamemakers probably love her by now.

Today we get to see how good they are at speaking. For Gale, tomorrow will mean the difference between life and death. He will have the chance to redeem himself, we just have to hope that he is good with speaking. I suppose we can find out later today but first I have to get through breakfast with Effie and then I have Prim for the first half of the day.

Effie has been more over the top since yesterday. She wont let anything slide and whenever we are alone, she just keeps going on about the kids and how much she misses them. I do feel sorry for her after everything that has happened between our family but its getting annoying now. "Haymitch?" Speak of the devil.

"What?" I ask, looking around, noticing that we are alone. Great!

"Do you think Rosie knows that I didnt want her to go?" She asks and I sigh.

"She knows Effie." I say, trying to keep the annoyance out of my voice.

"Yeh maybe you're right." She says and my eyes widen, has the famous Effie Trinket finally given up asking questions. "She knows I love her and thats all that matters, Peeta will keep her safe like he always does."

"Yes he does." I reply to her and she takes her seat across from me.

"I just want to hear their voices." She says but I know she isnt going to try. She isnt that stupid. "What if they dont like me anymore?"

"Come on Eff. We are a family and we stick by eachother." I say now looking at her fully.

"Oh come on Haymitch, this isnt a family. It was, still is and always will be the worlds worst hangover." She says and I'm shocked. She has never seen it that way before. Having kids was apparently the best thing she ever did in her life even if it was with a person like me. I honestly never thought that Effie would have kids and if she did then they would turn out so messed up but when I think about Peeta and Rosie, I cant help but smile. Peeta is the strongest person that I have ever met, I know that would have something to do with my neglect but I am so proud of him. Rosie has always kept her head up high and never taken anything bad from anyone and I am so proud of her aswell. I really do feel like I've been blessed with 2 amzing kids.

"What you smiling about?" Effie asks me, breaking me out of my thoughts.

"The kids." I reply. The only down side with the kids is that Peeta has always been drawn to alcohol like I was and I know that I need to keep him away from it. Masan has told me about what happened when Poppy died last year and how drunk Peeta got. He also has a lot of my temper in him which is sometimes a good thing. Rosie was raised in the Capitol from the age of 5 so she does have part Capitol girl in her and she is quite a lot like Effie but she isnt annoying like Effie is. Another fault is that Rosie hardly ever lets anything go. I still dont think she has forgiven me for sending her off to live in the Capitol but I am trying my hardest to get her to trust me again. I do love them though, despite of all their flaws because they are my kids and however messed up me and Effie are, they got all the good parts and I'm happy about that.

PEETA POV-

The next day when I wake up, the first person I think about is Katniss. She is on my mind even more than she used to be. The way that her hair flows behind her and the fact that her eyes are by far the brightest eyes I have ever seen. I just want to stare at them forever but I know how hard it can be to convince someone to love you as much as you love them. I know I may never get Katniss to love me that much but I always have hope.

I look around and the room is empty. Rye must have already gone downstairs to help open the Bakery. The clock alerts me that its 6:30am. I'm half an hour late, the Bakery opened half an hour ago but clearly they dont need my help much or someone would have come to wake me up like usual. I climb up off the matress that used to be Leavens and pull my shirt over my head which was deposited to the floor last night before I fell asleep.

It takes less than a couple of minutes to get downstairs and into the kitchen, as the house is very tiny. Masan is in the kitchen with Rye. Leaven must be out front. "Look, Sleeping Beauty is finally awake." Rye says to me. "Having a nice dream about a girl where we?" He asks sarcastically. It doesnt take long for me to realise that he is talking about Katniss and I narrow my eyes at him, pulling my apron off the wall hook and turning to Masan to get my instructions.

"What am I to do?" I ask, as I do every morning.

"Would you take over here please, I was just about to wake the girls up." He asks. I look at what he's doing. He's just kneading some bread. He was always better at that than anyone in the whole district and if I finished it off then I'd only mess it up. I'd say I'm good at Baking but I'm not as good as the Mellarks, unlike them I dont have baking in my blood.

"I'llgo and wake them up if you want?" I ask him. It is probably the best option right now.

"Are you sure?" He asks in reply.

"Yeh no problem." I wave it off as If it doesnt matter to me. I dont mind about waking Katniss up, Its just Evelyn that will be slightly awkward. I guess I better get used to it now though, she is going to be around a lot now after all.

"Thanks. They are both in my bed." He says, turning around to carry on with his bread.

"Why?" I ask, I thought Katniss was meant to be sleeping dowstairs, not upstairs.

He doesnt turn back around to face me, just carries on kneading whilst answering the question. "Because I woke up at about 3am this morning and Katniss was downstairs, she said that she was finding it hard to sleep because of the strangeness of the place and she couldn't stop thinking about her sister so I asked her if seeing a friendly face would help and she said yeh so I told her to go and sleep in my bed and she's been asleep ever since." I nod in understanding even though he cant actually see me.

"Okay. I'll be back shortly." I say and leave the room to wake the girls up. Its quite strange saying the girls, especially under this roof. It used to just be 'I'll go and wake Poppy up.' Then it wasnt anything and now its 'the girls', there's another thing I'm gonna have to get used to.

I walk back up the stairs and down the hallway to Masan's room. I have hardly ever been in here. Before Aymee died, it was always occupied by her and I would never dream of interrupting her and after that, I had no reason to go in so I havent actually been in this room since I was about 11. And even then it was to wake Masan up because he was late for the Bakery and because Rye didnt want to. When I get to the door, I take a breathe before going in. Part of me is scared because my brain is still telling me to stay away from this room because of Mrs Mellark but the other part is telling me that inside this door is the new Mrs Mellark and Katniss, the girl I have wanted since I was old enough to love. I can't believe how lucky I am at this moment in time. We will be spending a lot more time togethere if she actually chooses to move in here. I slowly twist the doorknob and push the creaky door open. One beam of light floods in through the curtains on the window and I catch a glimpse of Katniss' face before she groans and her eyes open. She is a very light sleeper apparently. "Hey." I say quietly.

"Hi?" She asks in question. "Whats up?"

"Masan told me to wake you both up." I say to her. "Its about quarter to 7." She nods and turns to wake her mother up, so I leave.

When they are finally up and downstairs, Evelyn leaves saying that she has a pregnant woman to go and check on. Strangely thats when we all see them kiss for the first time. Its weird to see Masan kissing anyone let alone Evelyn. I dont ever remember seeing him kiss Aymee. "Get a room!" Rye shouts from the sofa's where me, him, Katniss and Leaven are all sitting.

"Oh dont worry, we will." Masan shouts back and I catch Katniss making a gagging sound before Rye and Leaven burst out laughing. Evelyn moves to leave and waves at us all before leaving the house. "Right, I'm gonna get back to work. Boys come on. Katniss you are more than welcome to help if you want." We all look at Katniss and after what seems like an eternity, she nods.

By 8 o clock, Katniss, fully understands what she is doing. Masan doesnt have her doing any baking but she does have the register to work. At first she is a little confused and I have to help her but after a few customers she gets used to it. I still sit there with her though. Masan doesnt really need me in the kitchen today so I dont really have anything to do. He offered to let me have the day off which Rye whined at but then I said no, I'll help Katniss instead which is what I'm doing.

"What about the music on the radio? You must like that." I ask her. I'm not sure why but we seem to have a conversation about music that Katniss likes. It turns out that she doesnt really listen to much music.

"Not really, I havent really listened to it since my father was alive and even then I only enjoyed it because he would dance with me. After he died, we had to sell the radio." She replies. She probably had to sell most of the stuff she owned to keep her family going.

"Well, we have a radio in the back. Its normally on, I'm surprised its not actually." I say, confused. Rye normally puts it on before we starts working.

"Cool." We fall silent for a couple minutes before she speaks up again. "Peeta?" I look up to her face. She looks troubled. "Can I ask you something?" I feel my heart start to race. That is never a question that you want to hear. I nod, regardless. "Would you class me as your friend? I know its a very childish thing to say, I just need to know." She's watching me now, waiting for an answer.

"Of course I do. Nothing could stop me from being your friend." I say truthfully.

"Would you be my friend if I told you something very important that will probably change your views on me completely?" I narrow my eyes at her. She looks like she is about to cry and all I want to do is take her in my arms.

"As I said, nothing could stop me from being your friend." I reply.

"Do you promise?" She asks. "I've already lost everybody else Peeta. You have to Promise."

"I promise. 100 percent." I say and she nods. Her mouth opens to tell me something. I have a feeling that it is the really important thing that she is going to tell me but we are stopped by the sound of the doorbell. We look up to see Evelyn standing there.

"Hey. Masan got you running the register then?" She asks with a laugh. When she looks up, she stops when she see's Katniss. "Whats going on?"

"Nothing. You just interrupted something thats all." Katniss says in reply.

"Where you about to tell him?" I glance at Katniss just in time to see her nod and then I look back at Evelyn. Tell me what? "You know thats a bad idea Katniss. Masan, Rye and Leaven need to know first." Evelyn's face has horror written all over it. I have a feeling that something very terrible is happening between them and its a famil matter that I shouldnt be getting in the middle of.

"I'll just go into the back. Let you two ladies talk." I say and leave through the door that I came through.

The rest of the day goes by fairly slowly. I dont really have anything to do though so thats probably why. Masan sends me on order duty. Where I have to deliver everyone's orders. It takes me a couple of hours but I'm still back at the bakery in time for Dinner. Just in time actually as when I get through the door, everyone is already sat around the table. I smile at them as I take my seat next to Rye. Milo is in the corner eating some chicken that Brooke must have brought over from a bowl that looks decades old. "UNC PEET!" I hear from behind me and turn around in enought time to see Barley come running in followed by Brooke. He completely misses me and runs past me but I just let him go. He still hasnt got the hang of walking. I'm surprised he's walking actually. He never walks.

Dinner gets started and it is by far the best dinner I have ever had. I dont think anyone stops laughing the entire time. Not even Katniss and I've never seen her laugh this much, especially with everything that is going on. I cant seem to keep my eyes off her.

Its not long before all the food is gone and we are all just sat there, talking and laughing. Then, one sound dissapears and thats Katniss laughing. I look over to her. She is holding her chest and staring really intently at the table. "I'm gonna be sick!" She says quite loudly and runs for the stairs. We all sit in confusion for a second before Evelyn speaks up.

"Okay well I guess its time you all knew and you cant look at her any different. She gets annoyed when I treat her any different than I used to. But... She's Pregnant... Dont ask her about it because she wont tell me anything. She wont even tell me who the father is and she also refuses to tell him." My mouth falls open in shock. I never saw Katniss as the type to get pregnant, let alone at the age of 16. "She's already 4 months gone." I try to talk back but I'm still too shocked to do anything.

"She doesnt look pregnant." Masan says.

"Yeh I know. With the starvation in the Seam, the baby is growing quite slowly. I checked and the baby is alright for now and hopefully will be strong enough to be born. She refused to get rid of it and its too late now anyway. She does want to raise this baby alone and nobody is going to change her mind." She finishes. I hear footsteps over head. "Right, she's coming back. Dont act too weird please."

When Katniss comes back down, I cant stop looking at her. Something inside of me is kind of expecting her to start acting weird or something but she just seems like the same old Katniss but now that I think about it, I never really knew Katniss before so I have only ever known pregnant Katniss. "I'm sorry about that. I have no idea where that- W-Why is everyone staring at me?" She asks us all.

"I told them Katniss." Evelyn says and Katniss' eyes widen. "They needed to know."

"It fine. Yes, Its true, I'm pregnant, If thats a problem to anyone then I can leave." She seems angry now.

"No, Katniss, Its fine." Masan says, stopping her from leaving. "You'd be welcome here even if you had two heads. We dont care." Katniss smiles slightly and takes a seat. "Anyway, I think its time we got that matress taken upstairs. Any volunteers?"

"I'll do it." I say.

"I'll help." Katniss says. I'm about to ask her if she should be doing it in her condition but I dont want to have to deal with angry Katniss so I just nod. "I'll be fine." She says in her mums direction. Masan nods and everyone follows us to the sitting room. "Right, I'll grab this side, you grab that side." She says motioning to the side that I have to grab whilst she pulls up the side next to the fire. I can only see this going wrong.

I pull my side of the matress up so that it is standing on its side and then I glance over at Katniss, she nods and we both pull up at the same time, causing the matress to be off the floor but still on its side in order to get it through the doorframes. We get through the downstairs without problem but then comes the stairs. Rye and Leaven have followed us out incase their is a problem which is good. I take a step up onto the first step and Katniss does the same. Suddenly, my foot slips and I hit the step hard. The step lodging into my left side, I let out a yelp of pain and the matress slips onto me. Katniss has fallen. I quickly look up to see her falling. Luckily Rye is there and catched her in time. I let out a sigh of relief and fall back into the step. Thats when I hear laughing, coming from Katniss, causing me to laugh. "Well done, Miss Everdeen, You where able to knock Peeta on his ass." Rye says, laughing whilst Leaven helps me up off the stairs. "I think me and Lev should take it from here." He says and the matress is taken away from me and carried up the stairs as if its the easiest thing in the world. Me and Katniss walk back into the sitting room.

"What happened?" Evelyn asks.

"Peeta fell so Leaven and Rye took over." Katniss says, still laughing.

When Rye and Leaven come back down, its almost 8pm. I've got to get going home soon. "I think its time we adress the matter of housing arrangements..." Evelyn says, focusing on Katniss and Rye. "... Katniss?" I can see the pleading in her eyes as she asks. It's not hard to tell how much she wants Katniss to say yes.

"Well, everyone has made me feel so welcome and I did have a lot of fun today... so... Yes." She says and Evelyn's face breaks out into a huge smile and she gets up to hug Katniss. "But... If I get too uncomfortable you cant stop me leaving." Evelyn nods and throws her arms around Katniss.

"I guess thats it Masan. You have some more family members." I say to him and he chuckles.

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